On October 10th, 1900, on the shore of Kootenay Lake, George Goudereau watched from a distance as a 12ft creature that roughly resembled an alligator crawled out of Crawford Bay and made its way towards a pile of rotten compost that had been collecting on land. George starred as the unknown creature used both its small, clawed hands and its snout to search for food within the pile. Eventually the creature finished its search and made its way back to the water.